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		<title>Medicine, Social Media and Clinical Excellence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 06:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brouhaha about doctors and social media continues. Dr Dike Drummond writes on KevinMD that medical Social Media is a bubble economy with &#8220;no return on investment&#8221; and it&#8217;s just  &#8221;one more thing to burn you out&#8221;. Leave it alone, he says. Doctors with no interest in education outside their own patients, and whose only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much of a social media profile can doctors have?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is my rapid response published online by BMJ on 13 Feb 2012 in response to the  journal&#8217;s paper published 23 Jan 2012) How much of a social media profile can doctors have? The answer is &#8211; as much of a profile as they have in real life. There is no distinction between social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The God Proteus and Coeliac Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start with The Principles and Practice of Medicine by Sir Stanley Davidson. 1968 edition. I did read it in my 4th year of medical school, in 1969. What did it say about coeliac (spelt celiac in North America) disease? On page 941: &#8220;In coeliac disease of children and its counterpart in adults, malabsorption is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DANGER! GERMS! EVERYWHERE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media is agog with warnings about germs. Nothing new. Movies from Nosferatu (1922) to Contagion (2011) prey on human loathing and disgust of microbes. OK, there are important nasty strains, pandemic flu, resistant Staph, but here we are talking about a surge in paranoia about everyday exposure to germs. Witness the fetish for using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case For Reductionist Medicine..or..Let&#8217;s Not Jumble The Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reductionist Medicine is based on a piecemeal scientific dissection of disease to determine the cause of symptoms and the treatment. Lots of people don&#8217;t like this approach. Why? humans are complex organisms complex organisms are not simple if you only look for simple causes then you ignore the whole person if you ignore the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band-Aid: A Temporary Solution &#8211; Or Is It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the commonest metaphor I hear at work: &#8221;Doctor, I am sick of band-aid solutions. I want to know the cause of (here insert symptom/disease) and I want to fix it&#8221; Let&#8217;s start out with the most famous and useful band-aid in all of medicine. Insulin. Just read the description in Medical News Today: &#8220;(In 1922) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Said I Want A Second Opinion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, are they ugly tomatoes. I was picking a few from our veggie patch last season, and with a name like Rouge de Marmande, you would expect them to look glorious. Aristocratic, even noble, perfectly formed, symmetrical, evenly coloured. But no, this variety of tomato is real ugly. They vary in shape from elliptical to drum-shaped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need Few Words To Express The Essential</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polonius would have been right at home on Twitter. &#8220;Brevity is the soul of wit&#8221; he  advises King Claudius and his Queen Gertrude, following up with &#8220;&#8230;I will be brief. Your noble son is mad&#8221; Whoa. Your noble son is mad. He only needs 21 characters and spits in Twitter&#8217;s eye because he has said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Social On Professional Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It seems 2011 is the year of “Beware The Physician On Social Media”. There’s a lot of stuff flying around. Doctor Tweeps have made degrading jokes about their patients and been outed. A comprehensive survey of Physicians on Twitter demonstrated that 3% of Tweets were unprofessional, either profane or identifying patients. Both Australian/New Zealand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celiac Disease? Take 15 Hookworms and call me in the morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hygiene hypothesis has got a lot to answer for. Feeding worms to experimental subjects for one. How did the hygiene hypothesis start? From one of the most boring specialties in science &#8211; statistics (no mail please). It was the epidemiologists who first alerted us that children in developing countries, and even in eastern European [...]]]></description>
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